I have six sons, all of whom were *big* infants.  They weighed from 7 lb, 3
oz (at 35 verified weeks) to 10 lb, 6 oz (at 37 weeks!) at birth.  They
mostly gained very rapidly on exclusive breastmilk - usually up to 10+
months.  My first I know was 20 pounds at 3 months.  I don't keep track as
closely now :-).

All the boys were quite chubby before they walked, then shot up and out.  Up
in height and out of my arms!  My experience is that all of mine get chubby
and stout in the time before a growth spurt,  then slim right down as their
height goes up.  My teenager was terribly chubby as an infant, then again at
10-11 years old, but now he looks great.  I'm not worrying this time about
my second son getting chubby at 10, I just figure he'll grow 5 inches in a
few months like my oldest.

I think you've got to look at the parents (my dh is 6'5" and I'm 5'9"), look
at the family history, then take a real good look at the baby - healthy?
Thriving?  Active?  Then the doctor should back off and let people fit along
the full range of the bell curve.  Must we all be just alike?

I unfortunately see this kind of thing all the time.  In our LLL group, we
have the babes like mine - fat as ticks as babies and thin as rails as
toddlers - and the tiny little petite babies -- and the babies that stay
huge.  It doesn't seem like the doctors are satisfied with any of them!!!

Melanie Young
LLLL, IBCLC
Smithfield, NC

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